DBMS > Badger vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. dBASE vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

DGraph Labs

Asthon Tate

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM

Initial release

2017

1979

2010

2016

2017

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.10, January 2022

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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